Presentation by Juanjo Hierro, CTO, FIWARE Foundation FIWARE Global Summit 21-22 May 2019 - Genoa, Italy

1. FIWARE Overview
Juanjo Hierro
FIWARE Foundation CTO
juanjose.hierro@fiware.org, @JuanjoHierro, @FIWARE
www.slideshare.net/JuanjoHierro

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e-business Web 2.0 Smart Digital Life
Presence of business
on Internet
(B2C, B2B)
Presence of people
on Internet
(Social Networks)
Improving daily life
of people and businesses
(Smart X)
We are in front of a new Digital revolution which will transform the daily
life of people and businesses: everything that can be connected will be
connected, for the sake of a more smart life

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The new era of the Smart Digital Life will gravitate around context data.
Context data which describes what is going on, where, when, why …

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Smart solutions exploit data to improve the daily life of
people and operation of businesses
Smart Solutions gather data from many different sources (including
but not limited to IoT) to build a “picture” of the real world and then
process and analyze that information in order to implement the
desired intelligent behavior (which may imply changing the real world)
Data =
Context Information
Capture
Actuate Process

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How we want the next phase to be?

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FIWARE was created to ease solutions supporting the Smart Digital Life
building around an open standard for Context Data Management
that blurries the frontiers among application domains and enable the Data Economy

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… in Cities
Bus
• Location
• No. passengers
• Driver
• Licence plate
Citizen
• Birthday
• Preferences
• Location
• ToDo list
Shop
• Location
• Business name
• Franchise
• offerings

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Tractor
• Location
• Speed
• Direction
Crop
• Humidity
• Leaf area
• Age
Drone
• Location
• Battery level
• Speed
• Direction
… in Agrifood

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Tanker
• Driver
• Location
• Max Volume
• Current Level
• Speed
• Direction
Gas Tank
• Station
• Max Volume
• Current Level
• Min Threshold
• Temperature
Station
• Location
• Owner
• SLA
… in Industry

10. FIWARE: Driving the standard for Context Information Management
§ The FIWARE Context Broker technology implements the FIWARE NGSI API: a simple yet
powerful public, royalty-free standard API for Context Information Management
§ Simple: A RESTful API using JSON which any web programmer learns how to use in one day
§ Yet powerful: FIWARE NGSI supports geo-queries, soon Linked Data (JSON-LD)
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Application/Service
Bus
• Location
• No. passengers
• Driver
• Licence plate
Citizen
• Name-Surname
• Birthday
• Preferences
• Location
• ToDo list
Shop
• Location
• Business name
• Franchise
• offerings
Context Information
FIWARE NGSI API

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Users will enjoy portable solutions
City of Santander
City of Porto

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Context Broker
Standard API
GET <Oauth token>
http://<endpoint>/V2/entities/lamp1/attrs/presenceSensor/value
Reading the value
provided by a sensor
should be as easy as
reading an attribute of
an entity
“I don’t care what
low-level IoT protocol
is used”
“I should not need to
handle connectivity
with IoT devices”
IoT would be an enabler, no barriers because of complexity

13. Actuation on a device
should come as a side
effect derived from
updating the attribute
of an entity
PUT <Oauth token>
http://<endpoint>/V2/entities/crop1/attrs/watering/value “on”
IoT would be an enabler, no barriers because of complexity
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Context Broker
Standard API
“I don’t care what
low-level IoT protocol
is used”
“I should not need to
handle connectivity
with IoT devices”

14. Shared context information would boost innovative services
and the development of a Data Economy
§ Organizations in different domains could
interchange data based on a common Context
Information Management layer
§ Authorization and Access Control Policies govern
who can access what, when (Sovereign of Data)
§ Organizations may monetize the data they offer
(Economy of Data)
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Smart
Factory
Smart
Bank
Smart
Retail
Smart
Home
Smart
City
Virtual Shared Data Space
Smart
Servicesstandard
API
FIWARE NGSI and Context Broker
Technology has been selected to
become a CEF (Connecting Europe
Facility) Building Block

15. FIWARE case example: enriching car navigation through front-runner
smart cities using third-party data
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• Car navigators can display context information
about available parking slots published by
cities or other data from third parties it has
acquired the right to access to
• The car can share speed info with the city if the
drivers agree and both get something in return
City of Santander
City of Porto
• Users can receive recommendations from
smart home systems (“do you want me to
switch on the heat before you arrive?”)
• Users may have paid for apps developed
around data and recommendations used
from the car (discount restaurants around)

16. Entrepreneurs will benefit the opportunities of a larger
market
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“We can invest on
development of
solutions we don’t
have to adapt for each
and every customer”

17. Driving de-facto standards: cross domains
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The FIWARE Context Broker
Technology has been selected
as a new CEF (Connecting
Europe Facility) Building Block
Enabling public and private
sector solutions regarding
publication of right-time data
The European Data portal will
evolve to incorporate ability to
publish right-time Open Data
ETSI created Jan 2017 a new
Industry Specification Group
on cross-sector Context
Information Management (ISG
CIM) for smart cities
applications and beyond.
FIWARE NGSIv2 was the
starting point for the CIM API
to be specified: NGSI-LD
FIWARE Context Broker to
support NGSI-LD in the future
The GSMA has published a
Reference Architecture for
IoT Big Data Ecosystem
which recommends to
mobile operators
FIWARE NGSIv2 should be
supported by
implementers delivering
the IoT Big Data
ecosystem

18. Involving 117+ cities in 24+
countries.
All of them agree to foster
adoption of common
principles:
• Common API: FIWARE
NGSIv2
• Compatible Open Data
Publication platforms
• Collaboration in definition
of data models
Identified as one of the most
relevant Smart Cities
Platform initiatives with a
global footprint within the
IES-City (IoT-Enabled Smart
City) Framework
TM Forum is working with
FIWARE to deliver the key
building blocks for enabling and
connecting Smart City
ecosystems
TM Forum supports FIWARE
NGSIv2 for real-time access to
context information in cities
TM Forum and FIWARE
collaborate towards development
of data marketplace platform
components
Driving de-facto standards: Smart Cities
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19. Driving de-facto standards: Smart Industry
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FIWARE Foundation and
IDSA signed a MoU under
which both organizations will
collaborate towards delivery
of a first open source
implementation of the IDS
Reference Architecture using
FIWARE Technologies
FIWARE Context Broker is
the core of IDS Connectors
in proposed implementation
A first version of an OPC-UA
Agent has been developed
enabling integration of systems
exporting an OPC-UA interface
with the FIWARE Context
Broker
The Fast RTPS technology,
integrated as Generic Enabler
of FIWARE has been adopted
as default communication
middleware in ROS2
The FIWARE Community is
working towards providing a
Fast RTPS interface of the
FIWARE Context Broker

20. FIWARE Platform Architecture overview
§ FIWARE components can be assembled
together and with other 3rd-party platform
components to accelerate the development
of Smart Solutions
§ The core and only mandatory component
of any “Powered by FIWARE” platform or
solution is the FIWARE Orion Context
Broker
§ FIWARE is not about take it all or nothing:
you are not forced to use complementary
FIWARE components but other 3rd-party
platform components to design the hybrid
platform of your choice
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Data/APIManagement
PublicationMonetization
Core Context Management
(Context Broker)
Context
Processing, Analysis,
Visualization
Interface to
IoT, Robotics and third party
systems
Deploymenttools

21. Checkout http://developer.fiware.org !
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22. Data/APIManagement
PublicationMonetization
Core Context Management
(Context Broker)
Context
Processing, Analysis, Visualization
Interface to
IoT, Robotics and third party systems
Deploymenttools
Mapping of FIWARE GEs
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Core components
(Orion Context Broker,
STH-Comet, Cygnus,
QuantumLeap, Draco)
Connection to the
Internet of Things
(IDAS, OpenMTC)
Real-time processing
of context events
(Perseo) Handling authorization and
access control to APIs
(Keyrock, Wilma, APInf,
AuthZForce)
Publication and Monetization
of Context Information
(CKAN extensions, Data/API
Biz Framework, IDRA)
Creation of Application
Dashboards
(Wirecloud)
Real-time Processing of
media streams
(Kurento)
Business
Intelligence
(Knowage)
Connection to robots
(Fast RTPS, Micro XRCE-DDS)
BigData
Context Analysis
(Cosmos)
Cloud Edge
(FogFlow)
Documents exchange
(Domibus)(Incubated)

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FIWARE: The Open Source Platform for your Smart
Digital Future
Faster and standard-based
development of smart solutions
Transformation of organizations
into smart organizations
• Cities (e.g., Smart Traffic)
• Farms (e.g., Smart Watering)
• Factories (e.g., Smart Welding)
• Smart Cities
• Smart Farms
• Smart Factories

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Simple Smart solutions: Reference Architecture

25. Simple Smart solutions: Generic Reference Architecture
§ Four major layers:
§ Data acquisition
§ Data management
§ Data processing
§ Application layer
§ Cross-layer vertical Identity
Management and Access
Control
§ Data adquired from sensors or
third systems (e.g., weather
service)
§ More or less sophisticated data
processing and visualization
functions
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26. Smart solution: Reference Architecture (FIWARE)
§ Context Information
Management layer based using
FIWARE Context Broker
technology
§ Ability to integrate third IoT
platforms or use FIWARE IoT
agents developed as part of the
IDAS NGSI Agent Framework
§ Integration of FIWARE Context
Broker technology with most
popular Apache processing
engines (Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
§ Advanced web mashup and
Business Intelligent
components
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27. Smart solution: Reference Architecture (FIWARE)
§ Context Information
Management layer based using
FIWARE Context Broker
technology
§ Ability to integrate third IoT
platforms or use FIWARE IoT
agents developed as part of the
IDAS NGSI Agent Framework
§ Integration of FIWARE Context
Broker technology with most
popular Apache processing
engines (Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
§ Advanced web mashup and
Business Intelligent
components
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§ Goal: Noise monitoring
and sound event detection and
identification
§ Target customers: smart cities,
smart spaces, security
companies
§ Main features:
§ advanced and
innovative analysis using 3D
audio captures
§ monthly and daily readings
and statistics

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§ Goal: Turning Fleet Maintenance
into an exact science
§ Target customers: transport sector,
field service fleets, …
§ Main features:
§ Simple installation
§ Continuous mechanical analysis
in real time
§ Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Techniques for predictions
§ Real-time notification to
management and workshops

30. § Goal: Free livestock monitoring
§ Target customers: livestock farms
§ Main features:
§ Monitor free livestock using IoT
collars weared by each animal
§ Position, activity, inventory,
anomalies
§ Ecosystem with veterinarians,
livestock markets, etc.
§ Save money by early detection of
sick animals
§ SIGFox / LORA / 3G
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31. § Goal: Remote monitoring
and optimized replenishment
of silos in farms
§ Target customers: farms and
feed suppliers
§ Main features:
§ patented 3D scanning
§ easy installation (5 mins)
§ no batteries (solar panel)
§ collaborative platform for
farmers and feed suppliers
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32. § Goal: Non invasive osteoporosis
prevention
§ Target customers: Osteoporosis
concerned population
§ Main features:
§ Measurement of indicators for
bone mass creation (exercise, UV
radiation, calcium ingest…)
§ Daily monitoring of exercises
§ Bluetooth LTE
§ Attractive design
§ Gamification and engagement
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33. FIWARE: supporting a system of systems architecture
§ Organizations (cities, farm, factories, hospitals, etc)
facing transformation into Smart organizations have
to cope with the integration of multiple smart vertical
solutions coming from multiple parties
§ There is a need to integrate data to build a holistic
picture of what is going on in right-time (context data)
on top of which smart management systems can be
developed at overall organization-level
§ A Reference Architecture for such organizations will
look like a “System of Systems”
§ Key properties in “System of Systems” architectures:
§ Replaceability (systems can be replaced)
§ Extensibility (new systems can be added easily)
§ Loose coupling (systems can evolve independently)
§ Low intrusiveness (systems do not need to change)
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34. Smart City Reference Architecture
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35. Smart Farm Management Reference Architecture
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Smart Factory Reference Architecture

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But we are not
creating just
technology ….
… but a sustainable
open innovation
ecosystem

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#Community
#Ecosystem

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EasingExperimentation#

44. Thank you!
http://fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter
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ThinkingGlobal#
#

45. Thank you!
http://fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter
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ActingLocal#

46. Thank you!
http://fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter
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AcceleratingBusinesses#

47. FIWARE: Technology but much more
§ Mission: build an open sustainable ecosystem around public,
royalty-free and implementation-driven software platform standards
that will ease the development of new Smart Applications in
multiple sectors
§ Pillars:
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eHealth
tourism
Transport,
Mobility and
Logistics
e-government
Smart
Energy Grid
…
the open source platform of choice for
developing smart applications
a meeting point where innovation happens and
users can experiment with the technology
activate funds and accelerate the business of
entrepreneurs using the technology
reach a global footprint, opening to regions
that share the same vision and ambition
support development of the community at local
level, bringing support, training, certification

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http://www.fiware.org

50. Thank you!
http://fiware.org
Follow @FIWARE on Twitter
Juanjo Hierro
FIWARE Foundation CTO
juanjose.hierro@fiware.org
www.slideshare.net/JuanjoHierro

51. IoT would be an enabler, no barriers because of
complexity
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Context Broker
Standard API
GET <Oauth token>
/V1/contextEntities/crop1/attributes/humidity
Reading the value
provided by a sensor
should be as easy as
reading an attribute of
an entity
“I don’t care what
low-level IoT protocol
is used”
“I should not need to
handle connectivity
with IoT devices”

52. Actuation on a device
should come as a side
effect derived from
updating the attribute
of an entity
PUT <Oauth token>
/V1/contextEntities/crop1/attributes/watering “on”
IoT would be an enabler, no barriers because of
complexity
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Context Broker
Standard API
“I don’t care what
low-level IoT protocol
is used”
“I should not need to
handle connectivity
with IoT devices”

53. Open data publication
Once context information is gathered, other useful
FIWARE enablers can be used
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Advanced Web-based UI
(AR, 3D)
Data/Apps visualization
Big Data AnalysisComplex Event
Processing
Multimedia processing
IoT-enabled
Context Information
Management

54. Cygnus and STH Commet
§ Cygnus enable to persist historic context information
into:
§ HDFS, the Hadoop distributed file system.
§ MySQL and PostgreSQL, the well-know relational database
managers.
§ CKAN, an Open Data platform.
§ MongoDB and STH (Short-Te r mHistoric)
§ Kafka queues
§ DynamoDB, the cloud-based NoSQL database
§ CartoDB, the geolocated platform
§ STH Commet provides a MongoDB context data storage
for short-term context information history
§ Fast response for queries on short-term context information
history
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55. IDAS
§ FIWARE NGSI is capable to deal with the wide variety of IoT protocols today
§ Rather than trying to solve the battle of standards at IoT level, it brings a standard where no
standard exists today: context information management
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FIWARE Context Broker
FIWARE NGSI API (northbound interface)
IoT
Agent-1
IoT
Agent-2
IoT
Agent-n
IoT Agent
Manager
create/monitor
IDAS
(southbound interfaces)
OPC UA MQTTIETF CoAP
OMA LWM2M
FIWARE IoT platform
components or alternative
IoT platform supporting
connection to Context
Broker technology

56. Kurento
§ Kurento is a WebRTC
media server and a set of
client APIs making simple
the development of
advanced video
applications
§ Kurento Media Server
features include group
communications,
transcoding, recording,
mixing, broadcasting and
routing of audiovisual
flows
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57. WireCloud - Dashboards
§ Fully customizable and extendable by the
development of new widgets and operators
§ Ready-to-use support for the FIWARE’s data models
§ Share your dashboards with specific users or make
them public. Moreover, your can embed your
dashboards on third-party web pages
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58. Knowage
§ Knowage is a Business Intelligence suite bringing innovative themes and engines.
§ Knowage offers a wide range of analytical tools:
§ Reporting
§ Multidimensional analysis (OLAP)
§ Charts
§ KPIs
§ Interactive cockpits
§ Geo-based business Intelligence analysis
§ Free Inquiry
§ masterdata management
§ Data mining and network analysis
§ Execution of external processes
§ ETL
§ …
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59. Cosmos BigData
§ The Cosmos BigData Analysis GE is intended to bring
tools enabling analysis of both batch and stream context
information
§ Batch analysis relies on Hadoop (which may be based
on OpenStack’s Sahara or be a customized Hadoop
deployment) and Cosmos brings some added features:
§ User Accounts Management
§ OAuth2 authorization and access control support
§ REST APIs for MapReduce jobs submission and
management
§ Stream analysis relies on Storm and Cosmos brings an
intuitive graphical interface for:
§ programming analysis algorithms
§ management of Storm clusters
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60. Extended CKAN and Data/API BIZ Framework
§ CKAN is a data management platform that makes
data accessible by enabling the publication,
search, and consumption of datasets
§ CKAN is probably the most widely open data
publication platform used today
§ CKAN extensions has been developed in FIWARE
to enable:
§ Managing NGSI API queries as “dynamic” datasets
§ Assignment of Access Rights Policies to datasets
§ Managing Access Rights acquisition
§ Binding pricing to datasets (acquisition and access)
§ FIWARE Biz Framework components rely on
TM Forum Business Open APIs
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Open APIs
• Catalog
• Product offering
• Product inventory
• Billing
• Party/Customer

61. Access Control in FIWARE
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62. Pay per use monetization of data in FIWARE
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